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Everyone in the chain of command has to be willing to commit suicide. From the king to lowly button pusher. Hopefully, cooler heads prevail.

The Stanislav Petrov situation gives me some hope.

Willing to commit suicide… unless they’ve implemented a deadman’s switch, in which case it’s out of their hands.

For several years now I’ve worried that Putin is the kind of sociopath that would have us all die when he himself dies, even if by natural causes.